gflORT NOTES. 4l 



The financial position of the Journal does not, however, warrant 

 any additional expenditure. For the last few years it has not, as 

 was at one time the case, involved any loss, but it does little — in 

 some years nothing — more than pay its way. Of this I do not 

 complain, as I did not undertake the editorship with a view to 

 financial profit ; but, on the other hand, I should not be justified 

 in incurring any loss. 



After discussing the position with various botanists, I propose 

 to enlarge the Journal by giving an extra 16 pages monthly, and to 

 raise the price of each number to Is. 8d., and of the annual sub- 

 scription to 16s. This means that the contents will be increased 

 by one-half, while the charge will be raised by one-third, so that 

 subscribers will be the gamers by the change. At times, of 

 course, it may be desiiable to substitute one or more plates for the 

 additional pages, but the general result of the change will be that 

 each number will contain 48 pages, instead of 32 pages. 



The change indicated will enable me to give more scope to 

 various branches of botany which have hitherto been somewhat 

 neglected. The discontinuance of GreviUea has brought me a large 

 number of cryptogamic papers for which I am anxious to find 

 space ; and it will be possible to bring to a speedy termination Mr. 

 W. A. Clarke's interesting " First ilecords of British Plants," the 

 continued postponement of which others besides myself have re- 

 gretted. In many other ways, the additional pages will result in 

 making the Journal more useful and more interestuig. 



The present seems a fitting opportunity for suggesting that the 

 list of subscribers might easily be enlarged, if those who already 

 subscribe will induce their friends to do so. There are many who, 

 for the sake of encouraging science, would be willing to add the 

 Journal to their list of periodicals, or who would present it to some 

 reference library. The work of editing the Journal for sixteen 

 years has been considerable, and financially unremunerative, and I 

 think gives me a claim to the support of those interested in any 

 branch of botany. 



James Britten. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Merionethshire Plants {Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 362). — Mr. Han- 

 bury informs me that the Cwm Bychan hawkweed, which I gave in 

 my paper as H. lapponicum, is H. rvjidxiin var. serpentiniwiF. J. H. — 

 W. E. Linton. 



HiERACiA Records. — A form of Hieraciiim umbellatiim which 

 occurred near Truro has been named by Mr. Hanbury var. 

 montlcola Jord. The broader and more entire leaves are obvious 

 characters which separate it from the type. In Hants and Bucks 

 tl. sciaphiluin Uechtritz occurs near High Clere, Hampshire, and 

 near Taplow, Bucks. It is probably the H. vulyatum of most of the 

 southern counties. — G. C. Druce. 



